A song that stood out early when I listened to Grace For Drowning the first
times. A very catchy and "simple" song, and to me it is easily in the same
division as some of Porcupine Tree's best songs. I would also like to give an
honorable mention to "Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye", which was
my second pick on the album, but I wanted the list to have only one song
from each artist.

A band I discovered early this year, some count this as a late 2010-release,
but to me it's clearly 2011. Sweet little progressive ballad, some Porcupine
Tree and Oceansize-influences, but still unique in it's own way.

I see a lot of BTBAM-fans argue about Colors vs The Great Misdirect, new
direction vs the old, and honestly I don't really pick a side in that
discussion. While Colors remains my favorite, TGM is still a great album, and
I enjoyed this EP, even though I want a full album. This is my favorite, and
sadly I don't think the rest of the EP is AS good, the other two songs are
not bad though.

While I don't think Welcome to My DNA was as good as the first Blackfield
album, I enjoyed it slightly more then the second, and all in all I think it was
a good album. This song stood out as a favorite right away, it's just so
incredibly catchy, in a true Blackfield-way, and I don't even care if some find
the lyrics.. "lacking", I really love this.

Another fantastic debut-album, it's hard to pick favorites. However, Cameo
Lover gets this spot almost purely because of how catchy it is, rarely I hear
a song that gets stuck in my head after the first listen, but this song
managed to.

While there has been a lot of boner-jokes related to the song and the
album-title, I'll let that slide seeing how incredibly good it is. I know this
guy
rarely uses vocals, but it's a great feature in this song, and I would love to
hear it more.

Most pretentious song this year? Maybe, Ulver as a band could probably fit
under that, being a very artsy band. However, being a huge lover of
ambient music with cool lyrics read over it, I love this piece.

This song together with Codex were tied as my favorite song from the new
Radiohead album, but in the end I have to give it to Lotus Flower. The video
was really awesome as well, Thom Yorke dancing is always pro.

The Dear Hunter... First off, I could have picked almost all of the songs from
The Color Spectrum, there are probably just two songs on the entire thing
that I feel are slightly below the others, (mostly due to getting repeated a
bit too much), but today I'm gonna say Echo, tomorrow I probably would
have said another song.

Really beautiful and atmospheric piece, the intro is just perfect and the only
thing that drags this song down slightly for me is that the latter half of the
song isn't AS good. (Still really enjoying it obviously)

Could have picked several songs from her album, "Mutual Core" was
another candidate, but in the end I'm going with the single, "Crystalline".
Just a good mix of what makes her so good, and the outro gives it an
unique vibe.

Many people would say "Words in the Water", "Anthology" or "Call it in the
Air", but the song that took the longest for me to click has also become my
favorite, and that is the closing-song.. "Disarmed".

Technically not a new song, seeing as it's a new version of a very old song.
Still, this song has very little in common with the original. (Some find it
good, some find it bad) I really love this, even if it's a simple piece of
music.